Member Church News: Activists, Art, Arrests

Faith leaders arrested in show of support for migrants at Mexico-United States border. “I have found a ray of hope. It came at the border where faith leaders from all over the country have come to speak of love,” said the John Dorhauer, general minister and president of the United Church of Christ.

Andrew McDonough, an Australian illustrator, reflects on how his faith has impacted his work. “I want to draw Jesus in a way that no one has seen him in a children’s book before,” he says. Not surprisingly his latest book, Jesus was a Refugee, isn’t the typical retelling of the Christmas narrative.

More than 28,000 people have gathered in Katowice, Poland, for the 24th United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change “Conference of the Parties” (COP), and the Presbyterian Church (USA) is there.